I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.
I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Contemporary art challenges us. . it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.
If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.
Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.
"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do. . . Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate. " It's a romantic manifesto.
You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.